Urban v's the Commentariat

[Serge Forward]

Didn't she start off on the left... or am I thinking of someone else???

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Didn't she start off on the left... or am I thinking of someone else???

Yep.

 

[DaveCinzano]

In my head I always mix her up with Nina Temple (CPGB/Democratic Left)

 

[hitmouse]

In my head I always mix her up with Nina Temple (CPGB/Democratic Left)

I might start trying to get her mixed up with Shirley Temple in my head, it'd be less depressing than remembering the actual story.

 

[Serge Forward]

In my head I always mix her up with Nina Temple (CPGB/Democratic Left)

Ah... that might be who I was thinking of.

 

[petee]

That's the same guy who wrote pro-fascist pieces for the Spectator, isn't it?

he's a c*nt of decades' standing.

Not Fit to Print - The New School Free Press

Taki Theodoracopulos is a modern-day aristocrat. The shipping heir and conservative media mogul is affable, genteel and tanned. He is a fixture at black tie parties and a member-by-marriage of Austrian royalty. His waves and paparazzo and chit-chat with Manhattan elites often grace the New York...

www.newschoolfreepress.com

 

[PTK]

Ah... that might be who I was thinking of.

Or are you thinking of Tina Turner?

 

[hitmouse]

he's a c*nt of decades' standing.

Not Fit to Print - The New School Free Press

Taki Theodoracopulos is a modern-day aristocrat. The shipping heir and conservative media mogul is affable, genteel and tanned. He is a fixture at black tie parties and a member-by-marriage of Austrian royalty. His waves and paparazzo and chit-chat with Manhattan elites often grace the New York...

www.newschoolfreepress.com

Hey, it's not everyone who can boast that their magazine was used for the public launch of the Proud Boys. Also used to employ one Richard Spencer as an editor.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

A couple of unrelated things that made me smile.



Full marks to Embery for combining that “kids today won’t know the meaning of a cassette tape and a pencil” nostalgia vibe with his know-all buffoonery.

 

[hitmouse]

OK, but what is that thing? Is it something to do with cars? Could be a cufflink for all I know.

 

[ska invita]

OK, but what is that thing? Is it something to do with cars? Could be a cufflink for all I know.

choke i think
needed to start a car

 

[hitmouse]

choke i think
needed to start a car

Right yeah, so I was right in thinking it was something to do with cars. In which case it's also shades of that Margaret Thatcher quote about bus passengers, cos it's actually possible to be quite old without knowing how to drive a car.

 

[DotCommunist]

He's 8 years my senior, choke was becoming auto when I was a kid. What a weird thing to wave your dick about. I was there when when Trinitrons were massive cathode ray tubes and office computers were still nicotine-beige. Tears in rain.

 

[pesh]

i know what a choke is but not what a Paul Embery is.
this is fine.

 

[steeplejack]

In my head I always mix her up with Nina Temple (CPGB/Democratic Left)

Snap, I don't know what became of Nina T.

 

[JimW]

I thought it was a fag lighter but then I never learned to drive. Remember it was the choke now you've all told me.

 

[The39thStep]

Forgot all about this. I came across a photo of who I am guessing is Paul Embery at an anti-NF demo at Margate 2000

 

[hitmouse]

i know what a choke is but not what a Paul Embery is.
this is fine.

Now I'm just thinking of terrible jokes along the lines of "well, you can tell the difference because lots of people enjoy being choked, whereas..." I'll get me coat.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Forgot all about this. I came across a photo of who I am guessing is Paul Embery at an anti-NF demo at Margate 2000

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The invoice is in the post

 

[andysays]

He's 8 years my senior, choke was becoming auto when I was a kid. What a weird thing to wave your dick about. I was there when when Trinitrons were massive cathode ray tubes and office computers were still nicotine-beige. Tears in rain.

Chokes on a car are mostly automatic, but they're still a feature of plenty of petrol machines, and still have a symbol like the one in that photo.

Not sure what point Embury is trying to make, but it's probably bollocks.

 

[Elpenor]

A couple of unrelated things that made me smile. View attachment 400631

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Full marks to Embery for combining that “kids today won’t know the meaning of a cassette tape and a pencil” nostalgia vibe with his know-all buffoonery.

That’s the X wing during the Death Star attack surely?

 

[Serge Forward]

First time I drove a car with no choke, I was all 'what trickery is this?!?!' What the fuck recognising that symbol has anything to do with now in 2023 is beyond me, apart from saying you don't like young people's opinions. The cunt will be banging on about works outings in the charabanc next.

 

[two sheds]

I know. Same when they got rid of starting handles - black magic it was.

 

[Serge Forward]

My first car actually had a blue touchpaper you had to light before it'd go anywhere.

 

[two sheds]

And don't get me started on when they started getting rid of the vertical hold

 

[Fozzie Bear]

 

[danny la rouge]

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Please let that be real!

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Has to be a spoof. Nobody can be that thick, surely?

 

[Fozzie Bear]

I actually don’t know if it’s real tbf.

 

[brogdale]

If not, it’s still crafty work